Straw-spreading attachment for manure-distributers.



K: W BAYER,

STRAW smmnme ATTAGEMENT FOR mmm DISTRIBUTERS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 25, 1913 K, w. BAYER, STRAW SPREADING ATTACHMENT FDR MANURE DISTRIBUTEEE APPLICATION FILED MAR.25, 1913.

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FILED MAR.25,1913.

Patented Sept. 8, 191% 4 SHEETSSHEET 3.

.APPLIUATIO amen 2m K. W. BAYER. STRAW SPREADING ATTACHMENT FOR MANURE DISTBIBUTERS.

APPLICATION FILED MAE.25, 1913.

1 1 09,896, Pgtnted Sept. 8, 1914,

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in aflouawa a reek -d'stributer provided with i 3 is afragmenta sectional View of the BAYER, Q C

citizen of the rzise, in the county or I I K 11 have m nted certain ful lmproveio i. Si'rsW-Spreading Aftlue ments for -Dis i s, of W ilk. X). A non y mind, and the pyention is to prosf-l i led to manure y enrried and u some manner fir i A furili' rm odf adaptof El umiiuro spreader, this 1 ed to course a relatively l; amount of s-iruw und hein (lBCl W a beater whereby the km be fed to she usual smtierer of a Y outer.

A her oliie the invention is Joe proi'i wherelr this reel; with its beater may be reu ily attached to or de' tdelied from the body of e manure spreader, and still another objectis to so form the reek the? may remain upon the body of the manure spreader and per-Lions of ol sides oi the reek be opened up so to pee ruit the manure to lie slioveled into the body in the usual manner and not compel the manure to he loaded over the to of the rack.

A further object is the provision of means whereby the seat and actuating mechanism of the manure spreader may be disposed forward of the body when the attachment is in, use.

Other objects will appear in the course of the following description.

My invention is illustrated in the 3030mpanying driiwings wherein:

Figure l is a side elevation of e manure attachment whereby it may be used dist; ibutmg straw or like material. 2 1S end elevation of the distrilmter shown in Fi 1 with my atiaehmenl; applied t reto. i 1g 'l'i? Ffilfl, ELANJHE-DISTRIBUTERS.

straw real: and showing the hinged section M u e.

in see real; open to permit the nt my perspective the echmeus removed from 6 is :1 side el ration ma -ure spreader showm of my invention the form shown in F H and like parts to in the loll-swing description indicated in all the views of the ace-omponying drawllBSQIYLQ reference charact i to these drawings, designates -r body of {he usual form and eon'eiii manure This body is up 11 1e usual forward and rear trucks and may be constructed in any suitable mania-21x Tl v rear end of the body is provided with usual rotatable beater 3 dii suitable manner but usually driven from the rear axle by means of proclzet hoins l. As illustrated, this beater i' cludes a plurality of transversely extend g bars 5 provided with outwardly LL 0. disposed the: will scatter the manure or straw luterell y or fan ise so that the manure so scattered will be wider than the Width of the body. The shaft 8 of the scat terer is driven in any usual manner as by sprocket chains extending from and oper' atively connected to a sprocket upon the shale, ofiche healer 3.

Disposed in the bottom of the body is a conveyer 9 of any usual pattern which acts to son the manure, screw or other contents of the body rearward to the heater 8.

Mounted upon the sides of ihe bed-y 1d ex tending oi'er the uoper alter-6 is e L arv having downs uly extending wires or pins All theseoerts heretofore described are ordinarily found in manure c s readers and 1; demo; wishioihelimited in any way to this particular form of manure spreader as these elements form no part of my invention.

A manure spreader such as that above described is adapted in a small way for scattering straw, but the trouble with it is that it is not adapted to contain any large amount of straw and this renders it ineffective. If it is provided with a rack for containing a large amount of straw, the straw is piled up so high that as the lower. portion of the straw is cut away by the heaters 3 and 6, the straw will topple over and it will not be fed properly to the distributors 7, or else there will be a layer of straw two or more feet in thickness which will be conveyed over the heater 6 in chunks or bunches and these bunches of straw will fall upon the ground. and notbe properly distributed.

My invention consist in the provision of a rack adapted to contain a relatively large amount of straw, and in connection therevwith I provide an auxiliary beater disposed above and forward of the beater 6 and acting to tear up these bunches and cause the straw to be conveyed onto the scatterer 7 evenly. The rack is so constructed that it may be readily fixed to or removed from the body of the distributor and is designed to cause the body to hold two or three times as much straw as if the rack were not used.

The rack consists of a plurality of outwardly diverging uprights designated 12. As illustrated, there are three of these uprights'on each side of the rack. These uprights rest upon the top edge of the side 2 of the wagon body 2 and each of the uprights 12 is provided at its lower end with an angle iron 13 perforated for the passage of bolts. The uprightbraces 2 of the side boards 2 are also perforated for the passage of these bolts so that when the rack is placed upon the body it will rest upon the upper edges of the Sideboards 2 and be bolted to the members 2". There are three of these uprights 12 on each side of the rack and these are connected by three longitudinally extending strips 14, 15 and 16-(see Fig. 5).

These strips are relatively wide and relatively heavy. Disposed between the strips 1% and 15 are a plurality. of relatively light and narrow spaced strips 17.' Hinged to the strip 15 is-a raclrsectio-n l8 composed of longitudinally extending, relatively light and narrmv strips connectedto form a frame, this frame as bcf'orefstated being hinged along its upper edge to the strip 15.

Thus the hinged section18 may. be either turned down into alinement with the fixed section above or may be lifted up like a door for a purpose to be later stated] The side'framcs formed by the uprights 12' and the longitudi "lily extending members 1d, 15, 16 and 1.? a d a front and by frame composed of-l L ll di er 1- C) Attached to the middle upright 12 onv each side and to the rear upright 12 oneach of the side pieces is a rearwardly extending supporting member in the form of a two inch by four inch beam, this being designated 21. This member is adapted to rest upon the cross bar 10, and mounted in bearings upon these members is the shaft 22 of the uppermost or auxiliary beater. This beater consists of the oppositely disposed end members 23 and the transversely extending bars 23 provided with outwardly projecting pins or teeth. The shaft 22 extends out beyond the bearing on one of the beams 21 and attached to this shaft is a sprocket wheel 24 over which passes a sprocket chain 25 which in turn is connected to asprocket wheel 26 mounted on the projecting extremity of the shaft 27 of beater 6. The projecting extremity of the shaft 27 is supported in bearings mounted upon a bracket 28, the legs of which bracket are attached to the side boards ofthe body 2.

p The shaft 27 in turn is driven from. the shaft of the main beater 3 in any suitable manner as by the sprocket chain 29.

Attached to the rearward pair of uprights 12 and extending transversely across the rear endof the rack just forward of the beater 23*, is a cross bar 30 provided with downwardly projecting pins, wires or teeth, these wires being shown as extending clownward and rearward to a point immediately above the axis of the beater 23. Preferably this cross bar 30 is vertically adjustable and is supported to that end upon the uprights 12. Its function is to prevent the extrusion of straw above the beater 23. I The operation of the invention as far as described 1s, of course, obvious. It operates practically on the principle of all manure spreaders. As the machinemoves along the field, the rear driving wheels tin-(nigh the sprocket chains will actuate the primary beater 3. This through the sprocket chain 29 will actuate the secondary beater (3, and

this through the sprocket chain 25 will actuate the uppermost or auxiliary beater 23,

all of these beater-s moving in the same direction. The primary beater 3 null discharge the straw uponthe scatterer -7 the second ary beater ,6 will discharge the straw immediately in contact with it upon the beater 3, and the auxiliary beater 23 will 'dischar e y g the'straw upon the heaters (5 and 3 and upon Thus e advances, the @3011? me bod; \Hii carry 5n the straw the mass can-1 tom we ed in the rearward ,iuward the heaters until the Whole quuntitv d isci x n I'ge d.

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of straw Within the rack has been sumimrting the seat, the shif iing lever and mixer like A n. i-di "pi-ejecting the rack i' i d lever 33* which lower end as at 37 and corinem L regnlzmg mechanism in :1 manner mil prujec'ting merit-e Known in fliose versed in the art.

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ii qr 11 9, While shutit rel-ease fielding ii. The sir-" rack is inf/2"" .1 to rm few e much v as La: rm-iv wouid and it unloads and A the 5 am at the same time and match faster rs-1155i be dame by a warhie, esiective in pm2- 3116i W11 be M1 13 adapted is all forms 5 6f manure Spreaders have ea'aier and (10 not use a scatterer. maximise distributer it is pii'midea piiiraiity iocaied above the main beater -r Such a form as this is imitated 6 an Y, wherein the e" .s eing pmvi-ied. 1102 only mwiiy extending supportingan addmonei rearwardiy rung beam 40 halter} to the 1 Meunte upon th s beam &0

pi'm'ieie xii; Stile longitudinally extending arm-2G Wifii the outward'iy prejecb ing pins Q1 *5 This beaer shaft il curries viper; the sprocket Wheel 43, and the beater 531 21.; 22 earries an aditionai szireekei weed 44 from which a chain i5 we is the wheel q be am; by expeeienee-that 5W0 41 2: more sliccessfuiiy than as the two small hea e-ere have be mated that two en the straw rack are e beve the other. Lbe upper beater win ma a. of straw and throw it out mi and the uppew e the straw intended ii out bef me the next lower straw; hence there is me the case v invention, I :10 not eta as it (zbvious might be made therein from the spirit 0f the of auxiihaving upwardly extending sides and a for ward end, the rear end of the rack being open, a cross bar extending across the upper .end of the rear of the rack and having downwardly extending teeth and forming thereby a partial closure for the upper end i of the rack, a rotatable beater carried at the mounted upon the body, a plurality of heat ers carriedrearward of the rack and above the body, said heaters being arranged in stepped relation in a downwardly and rearwardly extending series, and a cross bar 8X-- tending across the upper end of the rack at the rear thereof and having downwardly and rearwardly extending teeth, said cross a Q bar being disposed in a plane rearward of uppermost beater.

A strawscattering attachment for manure distributers including a rack having npwardl and outwardly inclined sides, one of t e rack being closed and the rear end open, the upper portion of each side of the rack being formed of longitudinally extending fixed slats, the lower portion of each side of the rack being formed by a slatted section extending longitudinally the whole length of the rack hinged to the upper portion of the adjacent side, supporting members projecting from the rear end of the rack, and a rotatable beater mounted upon said supporting members and adapted to be operatively connected to the driving mechanism of the distributer.

a. The combination with a distribute-r including a body and a rotatable beater disposed at the rear end of the body, of a rack supported on the body, a carried by-the rack and isposed above the first named beater, the heaters on the rack being arranged. one above another with the uppermost beater forward of the lowerheater and the lower beater on the rack i381 ing forward of the beater mounted upon the body, and means for rotating the heaters all in the same direction. In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

' KARL W. BAYER, f-[L 5,1 Witnesses:

HENRY A. Knarr, ROBERT SHOUSE.

plurality of heaters 

